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ttyname_r: Work around bug on Android 4.3. * m4/ttyname_r.m4 (gl_FUNC_TTYNAME_R): Test whether ttyname_r is a stub. * lib/ttyname_r.c (ttyname_r): Implement for Android. * doc/posix-functions/ttyname_r.texi: Mention the Android bug. * doc/posix-functions/ttyname.texi: Likewise.
author Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
date Sat, 26 Jan 2019 11:56:31 +0100
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@node fgetc
@section @code{fgetc}
@findex fgetc

POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fgetc.html}

Gnulib module: stdio, nonblocking

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{stdio}, together with module @code{nonblocking}:
@itemize
@item
When reading from a non-blocking pipe whose buffer is empty, this function
fails with @code{errno} being set to @code{EINVAL} instead of @code{EAGAIN} on
some platforms:
mingw, MSVC 14.
@end itemize

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
C99 and POSIX.1-2001 and later require end-of-file to be sticky, that
is, they require this function to act as if it reads end-of-file if
@code{feof} would return nonzero.  However, on some systems this
function attempts to read from the underlying file descriptor even if
the stream's end-of-file indicator is set.  These systems include
glibc and default Solaris.
@item
On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), this function does not set @code{errno}
upon failure.
@item
This function crashes if the stream's file descriptor has already been
closed, if @code{MSVC_INVALID_PARAMETER_HANDLING} is
@code{HAIRY_LIBRARY_HANDLING} or @code{SANE_LIBRARY_HANDLING},
on some platforms:
MSVC 14.
@end itemize